Excerpt from In Calvert's Valley Outside the world was a dim and mysterious place, in which uncertain shapes slid past, and where an occa sioual light winked at her and was gone. The pulse of the train's speed, the Singing of the rails, and the velvet darkness slipping by, all brought to Hester a sense of movement, of aliveness and power. She felt as though the great undercurrents of the world the power and force of life, and the Splen dour Of reality had taken hold upon her and were sweeping her along on a great wave of existence, and all her being leaped to meet it with a glad eagerness for the pull of life, the glory of achievement, and her part to play in the magnificent Old world game. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.